For the past four months we have been hearing a lot about Intel's 65 nm
process and the products being released on it. Unfortunately, I think that there
is a lot of misunderstanding about where Intel exactly is at, as well as how
their roadmap is shaping up. As tech enthusiasts we tend to be quite optimistic
about how a certain product family or process node is going, because we simply
want to see these new products and lines come forward as soon as possible so
we can see the results and buy these new products. This optimism often leads
us into making fallacious claims about the healthiness of a certain design or
process node. Intel has a great marketing group, and with two Intel Developer
Forums a year to spread the good word of Intel, we are often inundated with
very positive information about Intel's products and production lines. This
little editorial is not meant to reflect poorly on Intel's products and processes,
but rather to help ground people in the fact that Intel is not perfect and they
have to work hard to get these products and nodes out